Newhall Square (site of the former Museum of Science & Industry)

Client:

RO St Bernards Limited

Newhall Street Birmingham

Project:
Comprehensive mixed use development on 2.43 acre site at gateway to the city’s famous Jewellery Quarter. Development comprises 100 bed Travelodge hotel; 10,000 sq ft office accommodation let to NSPCC; comprehensive restoration of Grade II listed building to provide office accommodation for Ormiston Academies Trust. Planning permission has recently been granted for a 174 bed apart hotel for the Stay City Group with a start on site envisaged for later in 2013.

Challenges:
Two listed buildings within the site; located within Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area and the need to provide a mixed use scheme which would work as a whole.